US-based alcoholic beverage maker Constellation Brands has agreed to acquire San Diego-based Ballast Point Brewing & Spirits for $1bn. Ballast Point is a US-based craft beer company with an expansive portfolio that includes almost 40 ...
The GBP71bn Anheuser-Busch InBev-SABMiller merger deal process is inching forward as both the companies have reached a final agreement. However, the deal is yet to gain approval from regulators and shareholders. Post clearances, the deal ...
The London-listed SABMiller has agreed to sell itself to Belgium-based brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev for $104bn (£68bn). While AB InBev is the world's biggest brewer, SABMiller is its competitor. The boards of the two companies said ...
Anheuser-Busch InBev is exploring the acquisition of competitor SABMiller, a deal that would lead to a $275bn merged entity which would produce one out of every three beers globally. If the deal goes through, it would be one of the six ...
Tags: Anheuser-Busch InBev, SABMiller, beer
Brewing major Anheuser-Busch will invest $170m to expand its Metal Container Corporation (MCC) facility in Jacksonville, in the US state of Florida. The proposed expansion will ramp up Budweiser and Bud Light aluminum bottles ...
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Thai Beverage's global unit International Beverage has made its entry into the Indian spirits market with the launch of single malts and gins. International Beverage will now market and distribute the products, under a partnership with ...
Tags: spirits, single malts, gins
Craft beer is hot right now globally. With little money for traditional advertising, niche brewers are relying on striking packaging designs to win friends and influence beer (and wine) drinkers. The number of craft breweries in the US ...
Tags: beer packaging, new beer design, beverage
Sleeman Breweries has introduced Sleeman Lift beer, with a hint of coconut water, in Canada for the summer season. Sleeman Breweries brewing and development director Ed McCallum said: "Sleeman Lift is a beer we pushed ourselves to make ...
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Beer in China has become increasingly popular in the last century. Chinese beer has also seen a rise in popularity internationally in the last few decades. However, Chinese beer industry suffered a negative growth in 2014 for the first time ...
Tags: Tsingtao Brewery, Beer
A new report by Canadean expects more Africans to enter the beer market from the home brew sector, while commercial beer and premium brands forge ahead in the exploding African beer market. According to the report, the African beer market ...
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Red Brick has partnered with Novelis to offer its beer in the latter’s evercan certified high-recycled content aluminium can sheets. The company will initially offer Laughing Skull Amber Ale in the new cans, followed by its ...
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Soft drinks company Postobon has received approval from Colombia's financial regulator to produce and sell Heineken beer in the country, under a partnership with Heineken's Chilean affiliate Compania Cervecerias Unidas (CCU). This move ...
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Two Thai brewers are contemplating purchase of a stake in Saigon Beer Alcohol Beverage, which is 89% owned by the Government of Vietnam. Chang beer maker Thai Beverage is planning to buy 40% of Saigon Beer for around $1bn. Singha, which ...
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Carlsberg is planning to shut two of its 10 breweries in Russia due to economic crisis and stringent market regulation, which have hit sales in the country. The closure of Baltika-Chelyabinsk in Chelyabinsk and Baltika-Pikra in ...
SABMiller has announced that its organic lager volumes witnessed 1% decline in the third quarter ended 31 December 2014, due to fall in demand in China and Colombia. According to the figures released by the company, group net producer ...
Tags: beer market, Agriculture